Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-29
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

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The earth's internal heat ia now being
forced into practical service at Pesth, where
! the deepest artesIan well in the world is be
ing sunk to supply hot water for public bath
ana other purposes. depth OF 3,lD tee,
mas been reached and the well suppl IS daily
10000 gallons of water heated 10 l5S degs.
! Fahrenheit.
THERE will be no leap year between ls96
and 1904. The ordinary test Of division by
| four would make 1900 a leap year. since no re-
| malnder would be lef' q, but in revising the CA
endar Pope Gregory XIII. found that it would
De necessary TO count as leap years only those
| centurlal years which would be dlVisiDle by
400 without remainder.
SAGINAW CITY. Mich. young man
bought a pair of lady's shoes on time and
gave them to his best girl. They were miles
! lor exchange, when the proprietor explained
| that they had not been paid for and he
guessed he'd keep them, The lady Will sue to
recover from the merchant.
BELGIUM Is now the greatest beer drinking
country in Europe, the annual consumption
| per head of the population being twenty I've
! pints more than in Great Britain. and nearly
sixty per cent. above the consumption of
| Germany. Also 1t Is third on the list of dram
| drinking countries, 10000, 900 ltres of spirits
oelhg drunk there every year.
WOOD TURNER of San Francisco died ten
days after receiving ar injury to the brain.
! which WAS not discovered until several DAYS
| atterward. The surgeons found behind one
| or his eyes a piece of steel three anct,a half
| inches long, one inch wide at the oeHJrs apd
| taperlng TO sharp points at the ends, One
! END was buried one inch and hat IL the
brain. etE
Poor old Bazaine is never to De forSiyen
All France is raging against him anew on the
| strength OF the alleged discovery of another
! OF his plots. TIE bit of treason in question
| was the studying in 1884 of The southern
| slopes and passes of the Pyrenees, with a
| view OF Spanish INVASION of France. OF
such wild tales are Boulanger's Nightmares
| made. ssh
NOVEL sort Of protective duty is being ad-
! vocated in England, and it is stated that it
| may possibly be adopted. IL Is proposed TO
| impose tax of S25 year upon all foreigners
! work ing in England. Ills estimated that the
! tax would vie about 81, 8 600 a wear and
] would fall principally upon Germans. With
! such tax in this country we should soon
| have such surplus that we never would be
| abe TO set rid OF II.
! IT seems that the idea Of attempting to de-
! feat nature by going without food is IN no
| sense novelty, Notes ami Queries cites an
instance which occurred in 1857. during the
! reign Of Edward H.. of 3 woman VINO was
! consigned TO Nottingham prison for life fov
| the murder of her husband, who held herself
| without food or drink for forty days. Her ex-
!
! moved his majesty's heart 10 pity, and he
| ordered her liberation.
THE other day Mark Rummell wandered
away off into Whitesde county and put up
! for the night at the house OF a stranger. The
man of the house and Mark slept together
During their conversation before falling
asleep Mark discovered that the man was one
who owed him on an organ bought ten ye.rs
ago in distant part of the country. He Law
there beside the man and dunned him till the
fellow got up and gave him 500. all the money
there was in the house. They then slept the
sleep of the just.
A MEDICAL EXPERT who was called upon
the other day to explain how it was that Sui
Ivan broke his arm in his fight with Cardiff
explained that his arm struck CardIfr's head
when he had tried TO hit him back handler
in the jugular. You see," he said. You see
the hand Is attached to the radius snd the
radius works In the elbow. around the ulna
Now the only thing necessary for sullivan to
do is to have his arm sci so that the palm of
the hand is toward the mouth" What Sui
Ivan wants is to have the knucklcs toward
the other fellows mouth.
A BLACK HILLS Dakota Territory man
entered into a correspondence with a young
woman in New York whose address he had
learned through a matrimonial agency. He
finally proposed marriage to her. She ac-
cepted him and went to Dakota to his wife
The man. however, left for Montana be ore
y years Old, pretty, and well educated. re
CelVed twelve proposals of marrIa-e during
The first four DAYS of her residence at Black
Hills, so she does not greatly miss the truant.
She is now trying 10 pick out the man she
likes best.
EDWIN BOOTH and Lawrence Barrett vii
make a joint tour together next season.
They Will play for zoo nights in all the princl-
pal cities OF the country. There Will be sIX
different bills, with possibly the seventh, so
that the chances for seeing the varying pow
ers OF the two tragedlaus will not be limited
VhG plays Of Shak espeare 10 he presented wll
be Julius Cesar "Othello,'' Lear" Mac
beth," The Merchant of Venice Bestces
these there may be presented those plays in
which Mr.. Booth or Mr., Barrett is a St eclu
favorite. as Don Cesar de Bazan," '"Thr
Kings Pleasure aud David Garrok."
SOME one sent person in Massachusetts, a
package of infdel publications. consisting of
IBgersolPs lectures, etc. Ii e responded: AT
the same time, If you have anyt hing better
than the Sermon on the Mount, and the
parable OF the 'PrOuigal son and thar of the
Good Samaritan or if YOU nave anv hettpr
code OF morals than the Ten Commandments.
or anything more cousollng anu beautiful
than the twenty-thlrd Psaim, Or. ON the
VINO e, anything that win make this dark
world more bright ihan the Bible does: am
thing tnat will throw any m1Ihe light on the
future, and reveal TO me y Father more mer-
ciful and kind than the Sew Testament,
lueu scuu IL W mt auu 5Odq0St ~ BROADCAST
IN New York city the hoveis perched upon
the rocks in the vicinity OF Harlem are very
near some fine brown stone houses. The pas
tor of one Of the churches. occupying high
house on the outskirts of a wilderness of rocks
and shanties, where the goats are numerous.
wrote his farewell sermon and left it on his
study table. Unfortunately the window WAS
up. On his return he cou d not find the SER
mon: ne rushed down stairs, went out and
found a goat nibbllng at the last leaf. having
eaten all the rest. As 1t WAS Saturday the
minister was compelled to deliver his sermon
practically eXtempOraneousiy. and the ONLY
consO alton he received from friend to whom
he narrate ed the circumstance was the sug-
gestlon that the goat might be expected to
give 1.-THE sincere m TX OF the word"
A QUEER new lad has sprung up among
Washington girls. This is to cultivate the
fancy that they resemble in some way a
prominent actress. How it started seems TO
be rather a mystery, though one explanation
m axes 1t principally dependent upon the re-
pulsed ambition Of "a society young LADY" TO
70 on the stage. There are two Young ladies'
Miss PembertOn and Miss Clark, who are dA
and perhaps that half the face about the nose
and mouth are grounds for the comparison
Miss Clark is sad really to have tone and
articulation very much like the favorite
actress at Daly's. Then George CayvAn mas
a supposed double. Nile de Lussan one. Lotta
and Mary Anderson one. The would be-hke
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